ABSTRACT
Mercedes Pavlicevic's life's work is about engaging in a therapeutic way with persons through musical improvisation. Her therapeutic method puts them and her in touch with human energy, the spark of life, and she does this through playing and improvising music with them and understanding the shared process of communicative musicality. The experience of the musical origins of self-in-relationship was then considered through the work of Trevarthen and Malloch and 'communicative musicality' was explored. It is not surprising that the authors as yet do not have such a model of mind. Such an inter-subjective model of the experience of listening to music based on interdisciplinary thinking would need to recognise and give appropriate importance to music in people's lives as a living symbol of who we are in relationship and not consider it only as entertainment.
